Chapter 53
(The next day at breakfast Chakotay, Seven and Icheb are eating)
Chakotay: Oh Icheb, I almost forgot, good luck for today.
Icheb: Thank you
Seven: Have you considered the sorts of questions you may be asked?
Icheb: Yes, I have tried to prepare for all eventualities.
Seven: Good, I hope you do well.
Chakotay: As do I
Icheb: Do the two of you have any plans for today?
Seven: I was going to start looking for a new job.
Chakotay: As was I
Icheb: I hope that you are fruitful in your searches, now if you excuse me I must go study a little more.
(Icheb goes up the stairs)
Seven: Where do you suggest starting to look for another job?
Chakotay: Where else, the internet.
(At the Paris house, Tom and B'Elanna come down the stairs, with Tom holding Miral to find a complete mess)
B'Elanna: Wow, look at all of this?
Tom: I guess we've got a little cleaning up to do?
B'Elanna: A little, I think it's more than a little.
Tom: We should get started then, after a cup of coffee.
(The two smile at each other and head to the kitchen. At Starfleet HQ, Icheb is waiting outside a meeting room, waiting to be called in for an interview, after finishing his Starfleet Entrance Exam 20 minutes earlier. Someone comes out of the room and calls his name, so he follows them inside and sits down in front of a panel of 6 people).
Rear Admiral Rixx: Icheb, it is good to see you, allow me to introduce you to the other people here. To my left here, we have Commander Reginald Barclay, who teaches classes on alien species and Lt Commander Lucy McNeill who is head of teaching Engineering. To my right we have Admiral Nikael Grax who teaches Tactical and Operations, Commander Rennan Genestra who teaches Physcology and Commander Calista Albach who teaches Astrometrics.
(They all greet each other)
Admiral Grax: Let's get down to business then shall we, can you tell us Icheb, why you want to join Starfleet Academy.
Icheb: Because it is the best school in the quadrant and because of the fact that I enjoy learning many new things, I feel that this is the place for me.
Commander Albach: Icheb, I can see from your Voyager files that your particular interest lie in Spatial Harmonics and Astronomical Phenomena, why is that?
Icheb: I find them both particularly interesting areas of work and I would eventually like a position somewhere where I can work on those two things.
Reg Barclay: Icheb, you are a former Borg, are you ready for the inevitable questions your potential classmates may have.
Icheb: I believe I am sir.
(30 minutes later Icheb walks through the door and finds Chakotay and Seven having a cup of coffee)
Chakotay: Hey there, how did it go?
Icheb: Well, I think.
Seven: When did they say they would get back to you?
Icheb: Within the next two days.
Chakotay: Well then I guess, we wait.
End of Chapter
